Milk Paint #3085

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Place the milk and the lemon juice into a large bowl give it a stir and leave it out of the fridge overnight at room temperature. In the morning the milk will have curdled and look almost like yoghurt.
Place your muslin over a container, and strainthe curdled milk into it. Let it strain slowly foran hour or so until the liquid has passed through the muslin and you are left with the curds. Discard the curds.
Your milk paint is naturally transparent, but is an excellent carrier for pigment, which will allow you to create beautiful washes using ordinary artist’s acrylic paints. Keep adding paint to the container of milk paint until you have reached the required depth of colour. If only a small amount of paint is needed, you may wish to put some acrylic paint into a cup and add the milk paint to that, mixing thoroughly before using.